Nick Salvatore

Labor Relations, Law, and History
Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations Emeritus, ILR School

Contact Information

369 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
p: (607) 255-2240

Nick Salvatore

Labor Relations, Law, and History
Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations Emeritus, ILR School

Expertise

American social and political history—especially themes of race, work, religion, politics and its varied dissenters; economic transformation across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Current Research Interest

Race and ethnicity in Brooklyn, NY after WWII; the development of Bedford-Stuyvesant as an African American/Puerto Rican ghetto set against the conscious preservation of other white neighborhoods; the politics, economics, and persistent protest of these developments

Distinction

Bancroft Prize in American History for Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
John H. Dunning Prize for Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
Yale University Institute for Advanced Study of Religion

Selected Publications

Salvatore, Nick. We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Salvatore, Nick. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

Cornell Research Website Article

Through the Lens of American History